CaseOther2014

Port Neches, TX, USA

((HOAX??)) 3 black military helicopters (Apache or Black Hawk) seen flying at low altitude from SSW to NNE.

Report quality: Low21/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2014-10-01
Where
Port Neches, TX, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
29.991, -93.959 · exact
Slug
other-over-port-neches-tx-2014-d74da6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Port Neches, TX has 9 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 309 reports from Texas.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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